Until Cornell undergraduate students on a mycology field trip found mysterious fungal "fruiting bodies" rising from an eviscerated beetle grub, little was known of the mold that produces a life-saving pharmaceutical for organ transplantation -- the immunosuppressant, cyclosporin.
'Change in the Global System' is the theme for a series of lectures and exhibits Oct. 10-17 when the Cornell Department of Geological Sciences and the Paleontological Research Institution (PRI) celebrate national Earth Science Week.
Jeffrey R. Immelt, chairman of the board and CEO of General Electric Co., the world's most profitable industrial company, will give the 2004 Hatfield address, April 15 at 4:30 p.m. in Call Alumni Auditorium of Kennedy Hall on the Cornell University campus. There will be overflow seating, and closed-circuit television viewing of the talk, in PepsiCo Auditorium, 305 Ives Hall. The talk is free and open to the public. (April 8, 2004)
"Caddy-It," a storage bag that attaches to a walker for the elderly or infirm, won top honors for its creators, Lorena Alvarez '08 and Heather Burkman '08, at the annual Undergraduate Business Idea Competition, held Nov. 4.
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Meredith F. Small, professor of anthropology at Cornell, is the recipient of the 2005 Anthropology in Media Award from the American Anthropology Association (AAA) for 'the successful communication of anthropology to the general public through the media.' (December 22, 2005)
Fifty Cornell students recently returned from three weeks in China over winter break as guests of the Chinese government and part of the 2009 Chinese Bridge Winter Camp for American Students.
Weill Cornell Medical College has received $13 million from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute to continue studying atherosclerosis and thrombosis, which are major risk factors for coronary artery disease, heart attack and stroke.
Health Awareness Week is making a grand return to Cornell University during the week of Jan. 27. The 22nd annual edition of campuswide health-related presentations and educational activities.
A just-released report to a bipartisan Congressional commission documented 48,417 U.S. jobs outsourced to other countries or publicly announced as being scheduled for outsourcing, from January through March 2004.